Comments on: Bloglines Is Broken (for me, at least)

By: Smotret

Smotret — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 17:39:08 +0000

Actually I had the same problem with Firefox 2.0.0.4 but Opera was fine.
Login via http://www.bloglines.com/login didnt show up the feeds list in the left pane. So I use https://www.bloglines.com/login again and everything is ok again.

By: John Rang

John Rang — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 21:28:28 +0000

I am using Firefox 2.0.2 now and sometimes get the same problem. I don’t have that problem with IE. I always thought it was Firefox problem. But thanks Llyodi and others.- I know what is the problem now.
Regards

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By: Andrea Hill

Andrea Hill — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 12:10:16 +0000

Thanks for the heads-up… our organization is starting to adopt the dojo framework and this helps me go into it eyes-open.

Also found this blogpost http://brianmriley.com/blog/?p=8 related to dojo and firewalls not playing well together.

By: Andrea Martines

Andrea Martines — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 09:03:46 +0000

It is a more general issue, not covering just Bloglines, but every Ajax-powered product. In particular, Ajax based feed aggregators (aka Start Pages) doesn’t seem to be awared of degradable and unobtrusive techniques.

I suggest you take a look at the MIX (http://mix.excite.eu), the start page I’m developing for Excite Europe. It is conceived as a degradable product, so users will still be able to navigate it when js is disabled. We’re still in beta, I hope to complete soon this concept. But in a rough way, it is already active.

By: Lloydi

Lloydi — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 00:56:38 +0000

Different firewalls do different things, Tom. Some block based on regExp conditions (sometimes falsely) and they usually parse the .js file to see if it’s trying to make certain JavaScript calls. The firewall is configured as per factory settings, so my point is that if it’s happening to me at my place of work, it almost certainly is at others. But, the point that you’ve overlooked really, is that Bloglines does something that is essentially quite simple. A news reader could work without complicated JavaScript. It always used to for Bloglines.

By: tom

tom — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 20:00:13 +0000

Why would a firewall block certain Javascripts? How does the firewall determine whether to block a script or not? Does it look at the filename of the script or does it parse its contents?

IMHO the firewall is broken and not bloglines…

By: Henrik

Henrik — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 23:00:32 +0000

I was thinking along the lines of configuring Firefox so it would have the dojo fw already present when loading the page. I should think that Greasemonkey could do that for you somehow. https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/748/

By: Lloydi

Lloydi — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 22:55:14 +0000

Nope – the issue is that the dojo.js file won’t make it through the firewall, so I can’t work around that at all, I’m afraid :-(

By: Henrik

Henrik — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 20:53:01 +0000

Ian,

Isn’t there a way to save a user script for the site that will give you dojo support?